Under the historical background of later Qing Dynasty’s unprecedentedly seriously national and social crisis,Tan Sitong presented the thought of reform of the public customs with the “mental efforts” to solve the problems by means of blending the wester learning thought essence and the Chinese Buddhist Confucianists,Taoists,Mohist ideas.

Feudal obscurantism was the most obvious feature of The Boxers patriotic anti-imperialistic movement,and the religious "Doom" was the most principal religious belief that gave strong tint of feudal obscurantism to the Boxer Movement.